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Fatal fire in Chicago, 2-8-22

Feb 8

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Excerpts from ABC7Chicago.com:

An 88-year-old woman and 70-year-old man were found dead in an apartment fire early Tuesday morning in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side after CPD and CFD responded just before 2:30 a.m. to the 3600-block of North Kedvale Avenue for a reported fire in a two-story building there. The two bodies were found on the first floor of the building after firefighters had extinguished the blaze.

Fire officials said a mother and son living in the building didn’t have any heat for many months and were using space heaters to stay warm, and didn’t have any working smoke detectors. They were longtime residents in the building and were well-known on the block.

CFD said the home was overfilled with possessions and was hard to get around in. Frozen fire hydrants also complicated matters while they tried to fight the fire. 

Investigators are still working to determine an exact cause for the blaze, but their initial investigation shows smoking materials might have started it.

 



 

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Fatal Oak Lawn fire claims 2nd victim

Feb 12

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CBS Chicago has an article about a house fire in Oak Lawn last week that resulted in one fatality and one serious injury. They are now reporting that the injured person has also died.

 A second woman has died following a house fire that killed a 73-year-old woman early Saturday in the 10100 block of Lawrence Court, Oak Lawn Fire Chief George Sheets said Tuesday night at the village board meeting.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office identified her as 74-year-old Mary Bruce. She was pronounced dead at 11:03 a.m. at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, the medical examiner’s office said.

On Saturday, firefighters found Kathryn Lomec dead on her living room couch after they responded to a fire at her house about 2:40 a.m., authorities said. They said Lomec’s caretaker was found unconscious and lying in a hallway and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition.

Sheets said earlier that the fire was contained to the living room and extinguished quickly, and one firefighter suffered an elbow injury. He said smoke alarms inside the home were not functioning. The cause of the fire has not been determined, and Oak Lawn fire investigators and the Illinois State Fire Marshal’s office are investigating.

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